DESAM airs suspicion
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, February 27 2012: Democratic Students' Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) has hinted at the involvement of invigilators and teachers in helping the students use unfair means in the ongoing High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) Examination.

Addressing media persons at its office located at Keishampat today, Education and Academic Affairs Secretary of DESAM P Premchandra said, eleven inspection teams of DESAM, comprising of four-member each, have been keeping strict vigil on the ongoing HSLC and HSSLC exams.

While inspecting several exam centres in the valley districts, the teams found that some HSLCE candidates have used unfair means, he said.

The irony is that some students were found to have possessed a question paper that only contains the answers !, he pointed out.

Students have also been found possessing only the answers without question papers.

Premchandra said, a candidate sitting at Room No 3 at Tomchou Higher Secondary School, Mayang Imphal has been picked up for using a photostat copy of the question paper.

He also alleged that mass copying was also rampant at some exam centres in Mayang Imphal including Pishak Macha Bal Vidya Mandir School, Uchiwa High School, Mekola Gulap Higher Secondary School, Lamlai High School, Naorem Birahari College.

He further expressed deep suspicion that the invigilators and teachers concerned had collaborated in helping the students to use unfair means.

He added that if any student is found using unfair means, and if any teacher/invigilator is caught red-handed, their names would be exposed in the media.

Speaking on the occasion, General Secretary of DESAM Angamba Meitei said that in some exam centres the DESAM teams were restricted entry by security forces.

He said the exam centres where the security forces refused entry to the team included Nimaichand Higher Secondary School, Thoubal; Kaina High School, Ideal High School, Khangabok High School, Bishnupur Higher Secondary School, Heingang High School, and Kumari High School, Hiyangthang.

He further said that some students were expelled from these centres by the Flying Squad of the BSEM for using unfair means.

Angamba also expressed that the students' body has bad impression on the exam centres where its inspection teams were restricted entry.

The students' body further appealed the parents not to grease the palm of the teachers or invigilators in order to win their favour in helping their children/ward.

It also urged the authority to change the system of classing Board and Private centres from next year.

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